WAR DECLARED

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2717, 11 March 1916, Page 5

WAR DECLARED

GERMANY AND PORTUGAL ! / ■ ; By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright j Lisbon, March 9. j The German Consuls have advised all ! Germans to quit Portugal immediately. •■ A rupture is regarded as inevitable. | [It was announced last week that the ; Portuguese, Government had 'seized: 36 j Gorman and Austrian vessels Ifhig in. , the Tagus since the beginning' of the j .war; also all G&man vessels at the v j Azores. The Portuguese Premier, in j tlie Chamber of Deputies, justified the ; using of German steamers on the ( j ground of economio necessity. He add- ! ed that an infernal machine had been ! found in the boilers of the Norddeutscher steamer Bulow, which would haya blown up the ship the moment it left ! its 'moorings. .An explosion was avert- .! Ed, -but-the machinery was ruined. i Senhor Costa urged the denunciation j of the German-Portuguese Treaty, add- i ing: "We aro ready for all eventual- ; ities." On March 2it was reported 5 that Germany had sent _ an ultimatum to Portugal, demanding the re- 1 {urn of the seizod vessels in fortyeight hours.] . . New York, March 9. : A Reuter message from Berlin states that Germany has declared war on I Portugal. • Service in the^militia s in~ Portugal is Universal and compulsory. The peace I effective strength is about 32,000, and I .the war strength 150,000. 'The Por- - ! fcuguese Navy consists of one coast de- : ■fence ship, four protected cruisers, some . old-pattern gunboats,' four destroyers, and one-submarine, manned by about 4900 sailors.. ■ N - ■ - j .j SOME SEIZED VESSELS. j TO BE SENT TO OAPE TOWN. * j Cape Town,, March 9. ! The s German vessels Admiral (6355 ; tons), Kronprinz (5689 tons), Khalif j (5105 tons), Essen (5878 tons), Hof j (4705 tons), Linda Woermann (1377. ! tons), and Zeiten (8021 tons), which j were seized by the Portuguese author- j ities "at" Deltfgoa Bay, " are" expected' to ■ be conveyed to Durban or Capo Town i and made serviceable. • | .'. - !